Randy Boone Dead: ‘The Virginian’ Actor Was 83

Randy Boone, who rode his own horse and portrayed the singing and guitar-playing ranch hand Randy Benton on the long-running NBC series The Virginian , has died. He was 83.

Boone died Thursday, his wife, Lana, told The Hollywood Reporter . She did not want to divulge any other details.

The North Carolina native also was a regular on two other 1960s series, but each of those lasted just one season: the 1962-63 NBC comedy-drama It’s a Man’s World and the 1967-68 CBS Western Cimarron Strip , starring Stuart Whitman .

Randy Boone, who rode his own horse and portrayed the singing and guitar-playing ranch hand Randy Benton on the long-running NBC series The Virginian , has died. He was 83.

Boone died Thursday, his wife, Lana, told The Hollywood Reporter . She did not want to di